Top 10 albums for each year of my life: part 4

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Final part now. Here goes.....

2010:

1) Tryptikon - Eparistera Daimones
2) Watain - Lawless Darkness
3) Ghost - Opus Eponymous
4) Fear Factory - Mechanize
5) Kverlertak - Self titled
6) Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
7) Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
8. Melechesh - The Epigenesis
9) Black Breath - Heavy Breathing
10) Exodus - Exhibit B: The Human Condition

2011:

1) Mastodon - The Hunter
2) Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
3) Machine Head - Unto the Locust
4) Evile - Five Serpents Teeth
5) Anthrax - Worship Music
6) Alestorm - Back Through Time
7) Sylosis - Edge of the Earth
8. Hammers of Misfortune - 17th Street
9) ChthoniC - Takasago Army
10) Primordial - Redemption at the Puritan's Hand

2012:

1) Testament - Dark Roots of Earth
2) Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light
3) Enslaved - RIITIIR
4) Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity
5) High on Fire - De Vermiis Mysteriis
6) Orange Goblin - A Eulogy for the Damned
7) Napalm Death - Utilitarian
8. Overkill - The Electric Age
9) Meshuggah - Koloss
10) Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

And I'm spent

^^ I really should get around to checking out that Enslaved album, my friend burnt a copy for me a few months ago

2010:
1. AGALLOCH – Marrow of the Spirit
2. DEFTONES – Diamond Eyes
3. DARKTHRONE – Circle the Wagons
4. GRAVELAND – Cold Winter Blades EP
5. BURZUM – Belus
6. IRON MAIDEN – The Final Frontier
7. GHOST – Opus Eponymous
8. ATHEIST – Jupiter
9. BLACK BREATH – Heavy Breathing
10. PROFANATICA – Disgusting Blasphemies Against God

2011:
1. AMEBIX – Sonic Mass
2. GOATMOON – Varjot
3. BEHERIT – At the Devil’s Studio 1990
4. WOLFNACHT – Project Ordensburg
5. VEKTOR – Outer Isolation
6. MARDUK – Iron Dawn EP
7. KATATONIA – Dead End Kings
8. ANTICHRIST – Sacrament of Blood
9. BURZUM – Fallen
10.BLASPHEMOPHAGHER – The III Command of Absolute Chaos

2012:
1. BURZUM – Umskiptar
2. MANTAS – Death By Metal (compilation of early Death material)
3. WODENSTHRONE – Curse
4. WOODS OF YPRES – Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light
5. KREATOR – Phantom Antichrist
6. NAPALM DEATH – Utilitarian
7. GHOST – Infestissumam
8. WOLFENHORDS – The Truth Shall Set You Free
9. FAUSTCOVEN – Hellfire and Funeral Bells
10. GUERRA TOTAL – Antichristian Zombie Hordes

I’ve listened to it once now and have to agree, but though it’s like comparing apples and oranges (as they've really evolved) I think I’ll probably always find “Frost” as the finest point of their career.

True. Most of my top 10's are a mixture of death/thrash/black and others, but it's good to have an open mind to all forms of metal.

Cattle Decapitation's Monolith of Inhumanity is incredible, even if 2 of the band are vegans and the video for Forced Gender Reassignment is shocking in the extreme.

Yeah, though I really can’t appreciate power metal with the exception of Blind Guardian and some other bands that are hybrids. I’ve found I also only like folk metal if it’s of the more aggressive kind (not too ‘happy’ sounding).

I have Cattle Decapitiation’s “Humanure” and “To Serve Man” but I’m not all that big into them really, maybe I’ll try and give the new one a listen sometime, though I prefer something like Cryptopsy’s “None So Vile” for this kind of sound..

I’ve never heard another bm album quite like ‘Drawing Down the Moon’, very unique, even Beherit’s other stuff is quite different. But yeah, being a huge bm fan that album’s definitely in my top 6 or 7 of all time.
To each their own, not everyone is going to be a huge bm fan of course. Not strictly black metal but have you checked out Australia’s Destroyer 666?? They play a black/thrash hybrid and pull it off very very well. “Phoenix Rising” is one of my favourites of the style.

Also as far as industrial metal and Godflesh worship goes I love my (early) Pitchshifter.

Heard some Destroyer 666, they sound good and the mixture of black and thrash works well. But i think the best BM album is either Nightside Eclipse or Dom Sathanas.

Two incredible albums indeed. The majestic atmosphere created on ITNE is pretty much unmatched, plus the cover has some of my favourite album artwork of all time.
DMDS is a masterpiece too. Though it's hit or miss for most people I think Atilla delivers one of the most genuinely creepy vocal performances ever on De Mysteriis.
Have you heard Mayhem’s “Live In Leipzig”?? It’s the best Mayhem recording with Dead on vocals IMO and although it’s a live album, it rivals DMDS in my mind.

I’ve always found Satyricon’s material to be a bit overrated when compared to their bm Norweigan peers to be honest, though “Nemesis Divina” and “Dark Medieval Times” (as well as the split with Enslaved) are still pretty decent releases in my books. I constantly go back and forth between these, so I don’t know if I have just one favourite album.

Do you have a favourite Immortal release?

I'm not really a big Immortal fan, it's the notoriety of cheesiness on display in their videos for Call of the Wintermoon and Grim and Frostbitten Kingdoms. That doesn't mean I don't like them though, at least they are still going.

Yeah, Immortal need to be taken with a grain of salt but the atmosphere created on the first two albums is just so epic and cold. “Battles In the North” and “Sons of Northern Darkness” are overrated though I’ll give you that.

I guess so, but there's no denying Immortal staying strong in the metal world. At least they haven't compromised like Satyricon and their recent albums.

Speaking of bands from that era going strong, how about newer Darkthrone material?? Sure, at this point it looks like we may never get another “A Blaze In the Northern Sky” or “Transilvanian Hunger” but I love their new almost crusty blackened heavy metal sound and think it’s worked extremely well for them.
At the moment, “The Underground Resistance” is my pick for album of the year even, though Carcass’ “Surgical Steel” isn’t far behind.